¶ When some of the boys at school began tossing beans from a brokenbean bag, Fourth” Grader Richard A. Christensen of Hartford, Conn,thought one of the beans lodged in his ear. He told his mother, but hefelt no pain and she could find no bean. That was four months ago. Lastweek Richard was vindicated. Doctors, treating him for earache, removeda sure-enough navy bean with a half-inch green sprout.
¶ Members of the Pacific Coast Surgical Association, somewhat startledto find that not all hospitals insist on a “sponge count” afteroperations, appointed a committee to help Jack up standards all round.Said the association’s president: “Few of us realize how frequentlysponges have been left in abdomens.”